Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Surf Titan

The Cassini probe has uncovered evidence that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has hydrocarbon seas (probably simple stuff like methane and ethane). Since November 1980, when Voyager 1 revealed to us that Titan had an opaque, orange atmosphere, it's been speculated that Titan had hydrocarbon seas which helped to sustain said atmosphere. How was Cassini able to discover these seas when Voyager couldn't? Radar!

No word yet if Haliburton is planning to relocate their headquarters there.

Buy the t-shirt!

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DED

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3 Comments:

Blogger Mike said...

You have a financial stake in this t-shirt venture?

3/15/2007 9:13 AM  
Blogger DED said...

LOL. Well, indirectly I suppose. I am a member of the the Planetary Society and profts from the sale help to keep the organization afloat. I don't actually see any money from sales from any merchandise. If you haven't checked them out, they're a non-profit space advocacy group. They lobby, foster partnerships between international space agencies, and even fund several projects that have been abandoned by said agencies (SETI, solar sails, etc).

I did buy a shirt for myself though.

3/15/2007 10:15 AM  
Blogger Mort said...

Just wait until Bushco and the Chain gang get wind of this. We'll have to fight those Titan terrorists there, so we don't have to fight them here.

3/15/2007 12:50 PM  

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